{"id":273636,"date":"2020-03-10T15:31:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T13:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=273636"},"modified":"2020-03-10T15:32:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T13:32:37","slug":"three-athonite-elders-officially-included-in-the-calendar-of-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/three-athonite-elders-officially-included-in-the-calendar-of-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Athonite Elders officially included in the calendar of the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate officially included in the calendar of the Church Saints Joseph the Hesychast (Elder Joseph), Ephraim of Katounakia and Daniil of Katounakia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Synod made the official announcement on Monday, March 09.<\/p>\n<p class=\"os\" data-enum=\"p5\" data-field=\" paragraph\">Their official glorification comes after an unofficial announcement made by Patriarch Bartholomew while visiting the Holy Mountain\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/four-athonite-elders-will-be-canonized-ecumenical-patriarch-announces\/\">in October<\/a>. The glorification of Elder Ieronymos of Simenopetra was also announced at that time, who was officially added to the calendar on\u00a0November 27\u00a0together with Elder Sophrony of Essex.<\/p>\n<p data-enum=\"p5\" data-field=\" paragraph\">\u201cThese saints have shown that zeal and prayer come and are preserved through the unity of the brotherhood around the abbot, achieved through the earnest and loving obedience of each member of the brotherhood,\u201d writes the Ascetic Experience, quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/orthochristian.com\/129177.html\">OrthoChristian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"os\" data-enum=\"p6\" data-field=\" paragraph\">St. Joseph the Hesychast reposed on the day of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos and will be commemorated each year the day after, on August 16\/29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"os\" data-enum=\"p7\" data-field=\" paragraph\">St. Ephraim of Katounakia reposed on the Saturday of the Ascetic Saints, the last Saturday before Great Lent), \u201cso it is very likely that he will be celebrated with Saint Ephraim the Syrian,\u201d according to the Ascetic Experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"os\" data-enum=\"p8\" data-field=\" paragraph\">St. Daniel of Katounakia reposed on the feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, and his brotherhood asked for him to be celebrated on the Holy Mountain the day before, September 7\/20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"os\" data-enum=\"p9\" data-field=\" paragraph\">The foundation of a future Church of St. Joseph the Hesychast was laid in Madagascar\u00a0in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate officially included in the calendar of the Church Saints Joseph the Hesychast (Elder Joseph), Ephraim of Katounakia and Daniil of Katounakia. The Synod made the official announcement on Monday, March 09. Their official glorification comes after an unofficial announcement made by Patriarch Bartholomew while visiting the Holy Mountain\u00a0in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":273628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21198,22826,22825,22824],"class_list":["post-273636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autocephalous-orthodox-churches","tag-athonite-elders","tag-daniil-of-katounakia","tag-ephraim-of-katounakia","tag-joseph-the-hesychast"],"better_featured_image":{"id":273628,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1920,"height":1080,"file":"2020\/03\/Untitled-1-copy.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"Untitled-1-copy-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Untitled-1-copy-360x360.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"Untitled-1-copy-890x501.jpg","width":890,"height":501,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Untitled-1-copy-890x501.jpg"},"large":{"file":"Untitled-1-copy-1024x576.jpg","width":1024,"height":576,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Untitled-1-copy-1024x576.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":273636,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Untitled-1-copy.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273636\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=273636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273636\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273628\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=273636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=273636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=273636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}